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Book Argumente aus der Forschung

Download or read book Argumente aus der Forschung written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Free

Download or read book Living Free written by Joy Adamson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the unique relationship of a wild animal with its human friends.

Book Cities and Catastrophes

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  • Author : Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9783631371695
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Cities and Catastrophes written by Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophes resulting from natural causes like earthquakes, fires, and floods have destroyed significant parts of many cities in Europe and North America. Contributions to this volume explore how cities experienced these disasters, how cities coped with the emergency, and how they tried to make sense of what had happened. To illuminate common themes, the book includes examples from Poland, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Greece, Great Britain, and its Caribbean colonies. Some cities never recovered while others managed to turn their physical destruction into an opportunity for spatial, economic, and political reform. Catastrophes have played an important role in urban history because they represent major turning points that shatter conventional aspirations and open new avenues of development. Essays are presented with abstracts in English, French and German.

Book Genesis and Geology

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  • Author : Charles Coulston Gillispie
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780674344815
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Genesis and Geology written by Charles Coulston Gillispie and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches that, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science, particularly geology, had presented major challenges, not only to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose. A new Foreword by Nicolaas Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought. Everyone interested in the history of modern science, in ideas, and in nineteenth-century England will want to read this book.

Book Museums in Motion

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  • Author : Edward Porter Alexander
  • Publisher : Rowman Altamira
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780759105096
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Museums in Motion written by Edward Porter Alexander and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own discipline. Now, Mary Alexander has produced a newly revised edition of the classic text, bringing it the twenty-first century with coverage of emerging trends, resources, and challenges. New material also includes a discussion of the children's museum as a distinct type of institution and an exploration of the role computers play in both outreach and traditional in-person visits.

Book City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria

Download or read book City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria written by Edward J. Watts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.

Book Fear in Early Modern Society

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  • Author : William G. Naphy
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1997-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780719052057
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Fear in Early Modern Society written by William G. Naphy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear of fire, flood, plague, invasion by the infidel, purgatory, death, witchcraft - these are just some of the fears that plagued the early modern world which are dealt with in this fascinating well-integrated collection of essays, based on extensive and ground-breaking new research. Drawing on British and Continental examples, the volume explores the panoply of personal and communal tragedies which tormented and terrified both elite and popular communities in this period, and shows how they formed strategies for dealing both practically and psychologically with their fears; it tells of the creation of the first fire service in France, of dog-massacres in times of plague in England, and of flood emergency plans in Holland.

Book A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe  and the Changes Thereby Produced in the Animal Kingdom

Download or read book A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe and the Changes Thereby Produced in the Animal Kingdom written by Georges baron Cuvier and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Museology

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  • Author : Ivo Maroević
  • Publisher : Vlg. Dr. C. Müller-Straten
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9783932704529
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Introduction to Museology written by Ivo Maroević and published by Vlg. Dr. C. Müller-Straten. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encouraging Collections Mobility

Download or read book Encouraging Collections Mobility written by Susanna Pettersson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

Download or read book A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography written by John Marincola and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history

Book Spinal Disorders

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  • Author : Norbert Boos
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-09-24
  • ISBN : 3540690913
  • Pages : 1162 pages

Download or read book Spinal Disorders written by Norbert Boos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinal disorders are among the most common medical conditions with significant impact on health related quality of life, use of health care resources and socio-economic costs. This is an easily readable teaching tool focusing on fundamentals and basic principles and provides a homogeneous syllabus with a consistent didactic strategy. The chosen didactic concept highlights and repeats core messages throughout the chapters. This textbook, with its appealing layout, will inspire and stimulate the reader for the study of spinal disorders.

Book The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press

Download or read book The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press written by Gisela Procházka-Eisl and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises papers delivered at the sixth meeting of the conference series History of the Press in the Middle East which was held in Nicosia/Cyprus from May 19 to May 23, 2004. The meeting was devoted to the theme The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press.

Book The Museum Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Germain Bazin
  • Publisher : New York : Universe Books
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Museum Age written by Germain Bazin and published by New York : Universe Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Museum Studies

Download or read book A Companion to Museum Studies written by Sharon Macdonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms

Book Utopia s Garden

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  • Author : E. C. Spary
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-12-15
  • ISBN : 0226768708
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Utopia s Garden written by E. C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.